NVIDIA's New Quad SLI Disappoints - 'Lackluster Performance'

"Quad SLI is a familiar term to us - not only have we had to hear about for months building up to today's release but NVIDIA has tried this once before. The card of choice (well, really there was no choice) was the GeForce 7950 GX2 and the success of the platform was less than spectacular. After being met with lackluster performance results, small lists of compatible games and eventually complete abandonment at the hands of NVIDIA when Vista came in to the fray the company definitely needed to rethink things."

They need to get all the chips on the same motherboard. The other issue is game programming, and I have yet to even hear about native multicore GPU support that's built to take advantage of what we're seeing here.

This is where console development has a major advantage; static hardware.

If the benchmarks of the GeForce 9 series are so similar to the performance of Series 8, then of course we would be bummed. I can get similar performance from an 8800GT for less money. The only time we'll see value is when the new drivers come out.